A NEW AND GENERAL

BIOGRAPHICAL

DICTIONARY;

CONTAINING

AN HISTORICAL, CRITICAL, AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIVES AND WRITINGS

OF THE

Moft Eminent Perfons

IN EVERY NATION IN THE WORLD,

PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH,

From the Earliest Accounts cf Time to the prefent Period;

WHEREIN

THEIR

REMARKABLE ACTIONS AND SUFFERINGS,
THEIR VIRTUES, VICES, PARTS, AND LEARNING,

ARE ACCURATELY RECORDED AND DISPLAYED:

With CATALOGUES OF THEIR LITERARY PRODUCTIONS.

A NEW EDITION, IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

Corrected, Enlarged, and greatly Improved; with the Addition of many Hundreds
of New Lives, never Published before.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETORS;

AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.

MDCCXCV.